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Management & Business Communications

The Faculty of the Department of Management & Business Communication are committed to the success of our BSBA in Management majors.

We have highly qualified faculty with Ph.D.s and business experience. Additionally, our degree programs are AACSB accredited; one of only 5 schools in the Kansas City area with this accreditation.

The faculty are very committed to working with students to ensure their success.  Students might be interested in the “What Your Management Professors Can Do for You” link which is a list of all management professors, their areas of interests, and how they can help students both in and outside of the classroom.

Our department uses a team-based active experiential learning style of instruction

• Classes utilize team based learning approaches rather than all lecture.
• Class time is given for team learning experiences.
• Students read before attending class so that class time may be spent in more active learning experiences to reinforce & supplement information in the text.

Our department is firmly committed to preparing students to work effectively in team-oriented work environments both through classroom experiences and teams such as SIFE.  In our classes, the majority of team assignments and projects will be completed during class time, require teams to solve real-world problems and enable students to experience the consequences of their decisions.  Many of the assignments and projects require students to create and/or work in real businesses or non-profit organizations.

Our students gain real-world experience

One example of solving real-world problems is that all Integrative Business Experience (IBE) classes create and operate a start-up business with a bank loan of up to $5,000 and manage a hands-on service project for a non-profit organization.  In the last 5 years, the IBE teams (we call them IBE companies), have donated nearly $70,000 in profit from their business ventures to non-profit organizations, and have completed service projects that have involved coordinating nearly 2,500 service hours of community service work. 

In the Fall of 2007, the MGT 4370 Supply Chain Management class managed Johnson County, Missouri’s electronics recycling program with the UCM Students in Free Enterprise Team. The class created, planned, organized, managed and executed the first electronics recycling program in Johnson County, Mo. This included negotiating with recyclers and shippers as well as coordinating all logistics for this reverse supply chain project.

Student Clubs and Teams. The most popular team for management majors is SIFE which is a club open to any UCM student regardless of major. Links to other business clubs and organizations can be found at: www.ucmo.edu/orgrequest/orglist.cfm

Internships. Business Majors may also participate in paid internship programs. The UCM HCBA Business  Internship Center information is at: www.ucmo.edu/intern.

Professional Organizations. Students are also encouraged to become active in professional organizations such as the Society for Human Resource Management,, the Institute for Supply Management, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the American Society for Quality,   the Association for Operations Management, and the Strategic Management Society. These organizations have regular dinner or lunch meetings in KC and St. Louis and are excellent for networking and professional development.

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UCM Named a Best Midwestern College

Citing a national survey that garnered positive student comments in areas such as academics, The Princeton Review has named UCM a Best Midwestern College.

Student Input Considered

Best Midwestern Colleges were selected with the help of student input. Some comments expressed by students are noted in campus profiles that are available on the web. According to The Princeton Review, "Students choose UCM because it is 'affordable,' 'offers a wide variety of programs,' and 'is a nice size - not too large or too small.' " It also notes that "A typical UCM student 'works hard to achieve her personal goals and still finds time to have fun.'"

Best Undergraduate Value

The selection of UCM as a Best Midwestern College follows an April 2007 announcement that UCM was listed as "one of the nation's best value undergraduate institutions" in The Princeton Review's 2008 edition of the book, America's Best Value Colleges (Random House/Princeton Review). Such recognition is consistent with UCM President Aaron Podolefsky's vision to make the institution more nationally known.